3. Social security payments are to be extended to graduates
from NCE and upwards.
4. Consumer Credit to be established very urgently. Chief of
Staff to lead a committee that includes the Budget Minister, Attorney-General,
and Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Finance, to make the scheme a
reality.
5. The Council, in order to enhance efficiency in the
Federal service, and reduce the cost of governance, decided to implement the
recommendations of the Steve Oronsaye panel on the restructuring and rationalisation
of federal agencies, parastatals and commissions.
The implementation involves merging, subsuming, and
scrapping agencies with similar functions.
The Oronsaye report was submitted in 2012 to the Jonathan
administration. In 2014, the Jonathan government released a white paper on the
report. The Buhari administration, after re-examining the white paper, also
released a second white paper in August 2022 but did not implement the report.
However, the Tinubu administration has decided to confront the
monster of high governance cost by implementing elements of the report.
An eight-man committee has a 12-week deadline to ensure that
the necessary legislative amendments and administrative restructuring needed to
implement the reforms are affected in an efficient manner.
The committee comprises Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, Head of the Civil Service, Attorney General and Justice Minister,
Budget and Planning Minister, DG Bureau of Public Service Reform, Special
Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, and Special Assistant to the
President on National Assembly. The Cabinet Affairs Office will serve as the
secretariat.
Key recommendations for implementation include:
-National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission to be
subsumed under Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission. The National
Assembly will need to amend the constitution as RMAFC was established by the
Constitution.
-Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission to be
merged with Bureau of Public Enterprise and be renamed Public Enterprises and
Infrastructural Concession Commission.
-National Human Rights Commission to absorb Public
Complaints Commission.
-Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) to be
scrapped and functions to be taken over by Federal Ministry of Finance.
-NEMA and National Commission for Refugees to be fused to
become National Emergency and Refugee Management Commission.
-Border Communities Development Agency to become a
department under National Boundary Commission.
-NACA and NCDC are to be merged.
-SERVICOM to become a department under the Bureau for Public
Service Reform(BPSR).
-NALDA to return to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Security.
-Federal Ministry of Science to supervise a new agency that
combines NCAM, NASENI, and PRODA.
– National Commission for Museums and Monuments and National
Gallery of Arts to become one entity that will be known as National Commission
for Museums, Monuments, and Gallery of Arts.
-National Theatre to be merged with National Troupe.
-Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa and
Directorate of Technical Aid Corp to be merged under the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
-Nigerians in Diaspora Commission to become an agency under
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
-Federal Radio Corporation and Voice of Nigeria to be one
entity to be known as Federal Broadcasting Corporation of Nigeria.
